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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an AAP teacher who also taught gen ed in the same grade level. Honestly my experiences as a teacher have been night and day. I feel I can do so much more in AAP and got my creativity back as a teacher. They content is the same but the way it is taught is different. There is a lot more critical thinking and a lot more flexibility in the schedule to teach grammar, word study and do fun projects. All of the kids are reading on or above grade level so it is easy to do book clubs. I honestly love it! [/quote]

This was my experience too as an AAP teacher! I was absolutely able to use best practices and do really creative lessons/group work. My kids were motivated, polite, and on the whole well behaved. Parents were very involved. It was fun![/quote]

Don't you think this is incredibly unfair to bright kids in a gen ed classroom?  My child is motivated, polite, very well behaved, but doesn't test well and is a little bit behind grade level in reading (but not in comprehension), so she's not going to get into LLIV even though I know she would thrive in this type of classroom and because she's quiet and shy, she gets ignored in GenEd and it's going to set her behind everyone.  AAP is really unfair to children like her who also deserve the best but don't get it because of some stupid test and biased teachers such as yourselves.[/quote]

Well, what I will say will be extremely unpopular but the solution is very easy to this - teach to the higher denominator in then classrooms, with high standards and expectation. The kids who can't keep up get remedial classes, pull outs to assist them, etc. If the problem is that kids need to move from grade to grade so they don't abandon school, just keep letting them pass with the minimum grade necessary but keep high standards of teaching and expectations for Bs and As.[/quote]

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